Position | Artist | Title |
---|---|---|
01 | The Beatles | She Loves You |
02 | Mr Acker Bilk | Stranger On The Shore |
03 | Engelbert Humperdinck | Release Me |
04 | Frank Ifield | I Remember You |
05 | Ken Dodd | Tears |
06 | Engelbert Humperdinck | The Last Waltz |
07 | The Shadows | Wonderful Land |
08 | Tom Jones | Green Green Grass Of Home |
09 | Elvis Presley | It's Now Or Never |
10 | The Tornados | Telstar |
11 | The Beatles | From Me To You |
12 | Cliff Richard | The Young Ones |
13 | Elvis Presley | Wooden Heart |
14 | Jim Reeves | Distant Drums |
15 | Del Shannon | Runaway |
16 | The Everly Brothers | Cathy's Clown |
17 | Mary Hopkin | Those Were The Days |
18 | Archies | Sugar Sugar |
19 | Louis Armstrong | What A Wonderful World / Cabaret |
20 | Helen Shapiro | You Don't Know |
21 | Elvis Presley | Can't Help Falling In Love / Rock-A-Hula Baby |
22 | The Shadows | Apache |
23 | Shirley Bassey | As Long As He Needs Me |
24 | Frank Ifield | Lovesick Blues |
25 | Cliff Richard | Please Don't Tease |
26 | Anthony Newley | Why |
27 | Jim Reeves | I Love You Because |
28 | The Scaffold | Lily The Pink |
29 | Hugo Montenegro | The Good, The Bad And The Ugly |
30 | Elvis Presley | Good Luck Charm |
31 | Cliff Richard | The Next Time / Bachelor Boy |
32 | The Beatles | I Want To Hold Your Hand |
33 | Helen Shapiro | Walking Back To Happiness |
34 | Roy Orbison | Only The Lonely |
35 | Scott Mckenzie | San Francisco (Be Sure To Wear Some Flowers In Your Hair) |
36 | Des O'Connor | I Pretend |
37 | Beatles With Billy Preston | Get Back |
38 | Gerry & The Pacemakers | You'll Never Walk Alone |
39 | The Rolling Stones | Honky Tonk Women |
40 | Procol Harum | A Whiter Shade Of Pale |
41 | John Leyton | Johnny Remember Me |
42 | Chubby Checker | Let's Twist Again |
43 | Jim Reeves | I Won't Forget You |
44 | The Seekers | The Carnival Is Over |
45 | Dave Clark Five | Glad All Over |
46 | Engelbert Humperdinck | There Goes My Everything |
47 | Union Gap | Young Girl |
48 | The Beatles | Hello Goodbye |
49 | Roy Orbison | Oh Pretty Woman |
50 | Jimmy Jones | Handy Man |
51 | Roy Orbison | It's Over |
52 | Frank Sinatra | Strangers In The Night |
53 | Eden Kane | Well I Ask You |
54 | Gerry & The Pacemakers | How Do You Do It? |
55 | The Beatles | Day Tripper / We Can Work It Out |
56 | The Everly Brothers | Walk Right Back / Ebony Eyes |
57 | Mike Sarne With Wendy Richard | Come Outside |
58 | Gerry & The Pacemakers | I Like It |
59 | Sandie Shaw | Puppet On A String |
60 | The Monkees | I'm A Believer |
61 | Elvis Presley | Mess Of Blues |
62 | Frank Ifield | Confessin' |
63 | The Bee Gees | Massachusetts |
64 | Allisons | Are You Sure |
65 | Billy Fury | Halfway To Paradise |
66 | Fleetwood Mac | Albatross |
67 | Ray Charles | I Can't Stop Loving You |
68 | The Seekers | I'll Never Find Another You |
69 | Nancy Sinatra & Frank Sinatra | Somethin' Stupid |
70 | Jimmy Jones | Good Timin' |
71 | Elvis Presley | Return To Sender |
72 | The Drifters | Save The Last Dance For Me |
73 | Tommy James & The Shondells | Mony Mony |
74 | The Beatles | I Feel Fine |
75 | Peter Sarstedt | Where Do You Go To (My Lovely) |
76 | Joe Brown | A Picture Of You |
77 | Jane Birkin & Serge Gainsbourg | Je T'Aime... Moi Non Plus |
78 | Adam Faith | Poor Me |
79 | Tom Jones | I'll Never Fall In Love Again |
80 | The Beatles | All You Need Is Love |
81 | Cliff Richard | Summer Holiday |
82 | Cliff Richard | I Love You |
83 | Danny Williams | Moon River |
84 | The Beatles | Hey Jude |
85 | Anthony Newley | Do You Mind? |
86 | Ned Miller | From A Jack To A King |
87 | Elvis Presley | Are You Lonesome Tonight? |
88 | Marvin Gaye | I Heard It Through The Grapevine |
89 | Johnny Preston | Running Bear |
90 | The Beatles | A Hard Day's Night |
91 | Chris Montez | Let's Dance |
92 | Elvis Presley | His Latest Flame / Little Sisters |
93 | Pat Boone | Speedy Gonzales |
94 | Elvis Presley | Surrender |
95 | Eddie Cochran | Three Steps To Heaven |
96 | Creedence Clearwater Revival | Bad Moon Rising |
97 | Ricky Valance | Tell Laura I Love Her |
98 | Cilla Black | You're My World |
99 | The Beatles | Help! |
100 | Marmalade | Ob-La-Di Ob-La-Da |
The 1960's was a decade of huge change in virtually every imaginable way. Across the Atlantic, the decade started with John F. Kennedy defeating Richard Nixon to become the 35th US President. The decade would end with Nixon in the White House, Kennedy having been assassinated and Lyndon B Johnson, Kennedy's successor being instrumental in a huge escalation of the US involvement in the Vietnam war.
The space race between Russia and America was hotting up with Russia being first into space and first to orbit the earth. However, by the end of the 60's, America had overtaken Russia with the Apollo space programme responsible for successful manned moon landings.
The cold war was at its height with the erection of the Berlin wall to segregate the Russian controlled East from West Berlin. which was part of West Germany, but completely surrounded by East Germany.
In sport, Sir Francis Chichester sailed straight into the record books for his solo crossing of the Atlantic. The Tokyo Olympics would make household names of Lynn Davies, Ann Packer and Mary Rand, whilst The Mexico Olympics were memorable for the British double medal success in the 400m hurdles with David Hemery and John Sherwood. A new high jump technique was unleashed on the world by Dick Fosbury whose "Fosbury Flop" would henceforth be the method universally adopted. And oh yes, I almost forgot, England won the football World Cup.
In literature, we saw the publication of best sellers "To Kill a Mockingbird", "Catch 22", "Tropic of Cancer", and "Dune". Television continued to make great strides with the introduction of 625 lines coinciding with the launch of BBC2, the second BBC TV channel. Later in the decade, BBC2 would be the first UK channel to broadcast in colour and by the end of the decade, all three TV channels were broadcasting regularly in colour.
The creation of "ARPANET", the forerunner of today’s internet, and the invention of the microprocessor would lay firm foundations for the technological shake-ups which would occur in decades to come.
Musically, the decade would start much the same as the 50’s had ended, but by 1963, the face of British music would be transformed by the rocketing to prominence of a huge number of "provincial" groups with Liverpool acts such as The Beatles, The Searchers, Gerry and The Pacemakers and Cilla Black to the fore. Not to be outdone, bands from the south of England such as the Rolling Stones, the Who and the Kinks also started to feature in the charts, whilst from the US, Elvis was still the King and Jim Reeves was selling well to country fans: the Motown factory was cranking out a string of hits and people were starting to talk about Bob Dylan as though he were the next Messiah.
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